How People Change During and After Wars

What struck me the most personally was how a human can change into something else so quickly. Before the war, Nazi soldiers or commanders were probably normal people, who worked and had normal lives, with families and friends. When the war began though, these people turned into something else. You couldn’t even consider them humans anymore. These Nazis or the SS started to kill without hesitation. They simply threw the innocent Jewish person on the ground, took out their gun, and shot them in the head. Sometimes people got lucky and the Nazi’s gun wouldn’t work, and they would survive to the next day. The Nazis and the SS would shoot one to a large amount of Jewish people, in public and in concentration camps. They would even shoot them in the arms of other people. But as the movie started to end, you could see that when it came to shooting anyone, the hands of the Nazis or the SS would shake. They started to become more resistant to violence, and started to use their head. In the very end, when the war was over, Oscar Schindler gave the Nazis the option, to kill the Jews in the factory, or go home to their families. The Nazis in the end chose to go home, because they found no reason to kill anymore people. Wars truly manipulate the minds of people, and turn them into savage beasts. 

Death can also change the war a person acts. Oscar Schindler is the best example. In the beginning, Oscar was power and money hungry, and would do anything for money. He was selfish and always wanted things his way and he would eventually get it, but as Oscar started to spend more time with his Jewish workers, especially Itzhak Stern, he became more attached to them. He couldn't run his business without them, but once he started to hear that his workers were being killed he stepped up right away. At first, the reason for stepping up was because he was loosing money because he had to pay for new Jews. Soon, those reasons changes. When his workers were sent to Auschwitz, he is enraged. He starts to bribe people in order to try to get them back. He even goes there in person to get them back, but he soon becomes broke. He manages to take 1100 Jews out of Auschwitz, but the rest were left and died. When they arrive back to the factory, they are but back to work, but the war ends, and the Jews are liberated. Oscar Schindler committed crimes during his reign of power and the government would be looking for him, so when the war was announced over, he would run away that very night. Before he leaves, the workers that he saved gave him a thank you letter, signed by everyone, and a ring. He starts to weep and realized how much money he still had. He was broke but he started to scream on how he could of sold his car, his clothes, and his badge in order to save a couple more Jews. He thought that saving 1100 wasn't enough, but Stern reassured him it was because without him, everyone would have been dead. Oscar before and during the beginning of the war was a selfish man, but his heart started to turn good, and he saved over a thousand lives. He gave up all his fortune to save those people, and he wishes he could have saved more.